Department of Food Market and Consumer Research, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
Department of Dietetics, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
Nutrients. 2020 Dec 19;12(12):3889. doi: 10.3390/nu12123889.
Appetitive traits of food approach or food avoidance are commonly measured using the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ). However, there is no Polish version of the AEBQ validated for adolescents, and to the best of our knowledge, no study completed with the Polish version of the AEBQ has been published thus far. The present study aimed to validate the AEBQ in a population-based sample of Polish secondary school students and to assess differences in appetitive traits between boys and girls within the Polish Adolescents' COVID-19 Experience (PLACE-19) Study. The PLACE-19 Study was conducted in a group of 2448 adolescents recruited in May 2020 through the random quota sampling of secondary schools. The AEBQ was used to assess food approach subscales (Food Responsiveness, Emotional Over-Eating, and Enjoyment of Food) and food avoidance subscales (Satiety Responsiveness, Emotional Under-Eating, Food Fussiness, and Slowness in Eating). To validate the questionnaire, the standardized factor loadings within confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with weighted least squares (WLS) were analyzed, and invariance was verified. The CFA presented good model fit, with χ = 4826.105 (degrees of freedom (df) = 384), root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.069 (90% confidence interval (CI): 0.067, 0.070), comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.90, and standardized root mean square residual (SRMR) = 0.08. The results revealed that, compared to the configural invariance model, the metric invariance model did not result in significantly decreased model fit, with ΔCFI = -0.002 and ΔRMSEA = -0.001, which were lower than the recommended cutoffs of 0.010 and 0.015, respectively. The scalar invariance model also did not result in significantly decreased fit of the model over the metric invariance model, with ΔCFI = -0.005 and ΔRMSEA = 0.000. Girls reported higher levels of Food Responsiveness ( < 0.0001), Emotional Over-Eating ( < 0.0001), Satiety Responsiveness ( < 0.0001), Emotional Under-Eating ( < 0.0001), and Slowness in Eating than boys ( < 0.0001), and the total AEBQ scores of girls were also higher ( < 0.0001). Positive inter-correlations were observed between all food approach subscales, as well as between Emotional Under-Eating and all food approach subscales for girls, boys, and the total sample; positive inter-correlations were also observed between the majority of food avoidance subscales. The present study confirmed the validity of the AEBQ in the studied population, and supported the associations between appetitive traits assessed using the AEBQ; it also indicated higher scores of both food approach and food avoidance subscales in girls than in boys in a population-based sample of Polish secondary school students.
食欲特质的评估通常使用成人饮食行为问卷（AEBQ）。然而，目前还没有经过验证适用于青少年的波兰语版本 AEBQ，据我们所知，迄今为止，尚未有研究使用波兰语版本 AEBQ 完成。本研究旨在对基于波兰中学生群体的 AEBQ 进行验证，并在波兰青少年新冠体验研究（PLACE-19）中评估男孩和女孩在食欲特质方面的差异。PLACE-19 研究是通过对中学进行随机配额抽样，于 2020 年 5 月招募了 2448 名青少年进行的。使用 AEBQ 评估食物接近分量表（食物反应性、情绪性暴食和对食物的享受）和食物回避分量表（饱腹感反应性、情绪性少食、对食物的挑剔和进食缓慢）。为了验证问卷，分析了验证性因子分析（CFA）中标准化因子负荷（加权最小二乘法（WLS）），并验证了不变性。CFA 呈现出良好的模型拟合度，χ=4826.105（自由度（df）=384），近似均方根误差（RMSEA）=0.069（90%置信区间（CI）：0.067，0.070），比较拟合指数（CFI）=0.90，标准化均方根残差（SRMR）=0.08。结果表明，与配置不变性模型相比，度量不变性模型并未导致模型拟合显著降低，ΔCFI=-0.002，ΔRMSEA=-0.001，均低于 0.010 和 0.015 的推荐临界值。标度不变性模型也没有导致模型在度量不变性模型的基础上拟合度显著降低，ΔCFI=-0.005，ΔRMSEA=0.000。与男孩相比，女孩报告的食物反应性（<0.0001）、情绪性暴食（<0.0001）、饱腹感反应性（<0.0001）、情绪性少食（<0.0001）和进食缓慢（<0.0001）更高，女孩的 AEBQ 总分也更高（<0.0001）。在女孩、男孩和总样本中，所有食物接近分量表之间以及情绪性少食与所有食物接近分量表之间均观察到正相关；大多数食物回避分量表之间也观察到正相关。本研究在研究人群中证实了 AEBQ 的有效性，并支持了使用 AEBQ 评估的食欲特质之间的关联；它还表明，在基于波兰中学生群体的样本中，女孩的食物接近和回避分量表的得分均高于男孩。
